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Thunderbird delete all email

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Im looking for help. TB deletes all email. I have an old backup email account. All file ...AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird in zip. Procedure: 0. delete all current file in folder ...AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird 1 unpack archive 2 open Thunderbird 3 turn on offline mode 4. read old emails, all emails are there. 5. clos TB 6 open TB 7. all email is gone !? Why? This is terrible. Why does it delete all emails without asking?

Im looking for help. TB deletes all email. I have an old backup email account. All file ...AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird in zip. Procedure: 0. delete all current file in folder ...AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird 1 unpack archive 2 open Thunderbird 3 turn on offline mode 4. read old emails, all emails are there. 5. clos TB 6 open TB 7. all email is gone !? Why? This is terrible. Why does it delete all emails without asking?

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david
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You mentioned they were old messages. What is your setting for message retention in accounts>syncronization&storage?

max
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I cant change to English , because works in offline, and TH have no English language file, I don't want to connect to email server account, so nowhere find option to delete email account LOL So posts screen in polish.

https://i.imgur.com/Gr0C86D.jpeg

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